troublemaking

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
22
Words With Friends
28
Letters
13
Pronunciation
/ˈtɹʌb(ə)lmeɪkɪŋ/(UK)

Definition of troublemaking

2 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Causing trouble.
    “Moving to Saignon in the mid-1920s, he helped to produce a troublemaking newspaper, L'Indochine, which ventilated the many complaints of the Vietnamese about forced labor, land expropriation, and police brutality.”
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adj

  1. Causing trouble.
    “Moving to Saignon in the mid-1920s, he helped to produce a troublemaking newspaper, L'Indochine, which ventilated the many complaints of the Vietnamese about forced labor, land expropriation, and police brutality.”

noun

  1. (uncountable, usually)Causing trouble; acting in a disruptive way
    “Finding the words, the expressions, the way of living that could be the trouble-making inside this closed society, that's our main goal. It's mine anyway. It's the only way to be open, to be conscious of not being just an object, of not being only acted upon, but doing things by yourself.”
    “The spunky kindergartener (first grader in more recent volumes) is prone to troublemaking, often calls people names and isn’t averse to talking back to her teachers.”

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Etymology

From trouble + making.

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